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From: David Moore <dmoore@ucsd.edu>
Date: 21 Mar 1997 13:37:03 -0800
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Damon Lipparelli <lipp@primus.com> writes:

> In the process of reading my mail this morning, I got the above error
> selecting a message from Morioka Tomohiko.  After this, I couldn't do much
> of anything in VM (saving my INBOX, moving from message to message, sending 
> this bug report) without getting the same error with a different stack
> trace.  I'm including the backtrace from an attempt to save my INBOX.
> 
> -lipp
> 
> ps: I had to exit XEmacs without saving my INBOX.  Once I re-started and
>     recovered my INBOX, everything seemed to be working again.  But, I
>     couldn't send this without the same error.  Let's try this again....
> 
> Signaling: (file-error "Cannot open" "too many open files" . "/tmp/vm20802.67")

The next time this happens can you collect the output from
`M-x list-processes'.

If you get in this state, you should immediately go and kill any `*ftp'
buffers and shell-mode buffers you have around.

You can most likely type `limit' at the shell prompt from which you
start xemacs to see how many open files you are limited too.  On some
systems you can also up this value.


Although this sounds more like some other problem than just shortage of
fds; maybe the gif or jpeg code or something isn't closing open files.

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